Vladimir Ivanovich Savchenko

Vladimir Ivanovich Savchenko ( Russian Владимир Иванович Савченко , Ukrainian Володимир Іванович Савченко Volodymyr Iwanowytsch Savchenko , born on 15. February 1933 in Poltava , USSR , died on 19th January 2005 in Kiev , Ukraine ) was a Soviet-Ukrainian science fiction -author.

Life

Savchenko studied physics at Energetic Institute in Moscow and then worked as an electronics engineer in the field of semiconductor technology. From the end of the 1950s he began to publish science fiction, in 1960 two volumes appeared with collected stories, including the volume Чёрные звёзды (in German: "Black Stars") with the stories Where are you, Ilyin? and Professor Bern's resurrection .

Savchenko is assigned to the hard SF , i.e. the scientifically and technically justified science fiction. This also applies to his best-known work, the 1967 novel Открытие себя, in German translation as Das dreifache Ich , which deals with the creation of a superman.

In 2003 Savchenko received the Aelita Prize for life's work. He died in Kiev in 2005 at the age of 71.

bibliography

Вселяне (series of novels)

• Должность во Вселенной (1992)
• Время больших отрицаний (2015)

Novels

• Открытие себя (1967)
  • German: The threefold me. Volk und Welt, Berlin, 1979. Also: the threefold self. Goldmann Science Fiction # 23386, 1981, ISBN 3-442-23386-0 .
• За перевалом (1984)
  • German: Behind the passport. (Excerpt) in: Book and Art in the USSR, 1984, issue 43
• Пятое путешествие Гулливера (1988)
• Должность во Вселенной (1992)
• Время больших отрицаний (2015)

Collections

• Чёрные звёзды (1960)
• Назустріч зорям (1960)
• Алгоритм успеха (1983)
• Открытие себя (1983)
• Похитители сутей (1988)
• Retronauci (1989)
• Визит сдвинутой фазианки (1991)

stories

• Как фриц шубу нашёл (1943)
• Чёрные звёзды [= Чорні зорі] (1958)
• Призрак времени [= Привид часу] (1963)
• Алгоритм успеха (1964)
  • German: The algorithm of success. In: Barbara Antkowiak , Jutta Janke, Karl-Heinz Jähn , Hannelore Menke, Veronika Riedel, Hans Skirecki (eds.): The photographer of the invisible. Book Club 65, 1979.
• Час таланта (1969)
• Тупик (1972)
• Испытание истиной (1973)
• Встречники (1980)
  • German: The counter-runner. In: Hannelore Menke (Ed.): The dream transmitter. People and World, 1986.
• Похитители сутей (1988)
• Пятое измерение (1988)
• Пятое путешествие Гулливера (1988)

Short stories

• Навстречу звёздам [= Где вы, Ильин ?; Ракета не отвечает] (1955)
  • German: Where are you, Ilyin? In: Walter Ernsting (Ed.): Utopia Science Fiction Magazin, # 6. Pabel, 1957. Also as: Towards the stars. In: Towards the stars. Publishing house culture and progress, Berlin 1958 (small youth series, vol. 9 (1958) No. 4, greatly abridged and changed). Also as: The rocket does not answer. In: Revue around the world , vol. 10 (1959) No. 9.
• Пробуждение профессора Берна (1956)
  • German: Professor Bern's resurrection. In: The messenger from space. Publishing house for foreign language literature (Wissenschaftliche Fantastik), 1960. Also as: Awakening in the 20th millennium. In: Science Fiction 1: Scientific-fantastic stories from Russia. Piper, 1963.
• Путешествие Вити Витькина (1956)
• Путешествие туда и обратно, или Сокровища загадочной планеты [= Путешествие на Уран и обратно] (1957)
• Вторая экспедиция на Странную планету [= Странная планета] (1959)
  • English: The second expedition to the strange planet. In: The creepy elevator. The children's book publisher Berlin, Berlin 1976.
• Жил-был мальчик (1969)
• Перепутанный (1980)
• С ним надо по-хорошему [= З ним треба по-доброму] (1980)
• Сигналы с Земли [= Сигнали з планети Земля] (1980)
• Визит сдвинутой фазианки (1991)

Non-fiction

• Полупроводники на старте (1958)
• Технология и свойства микроэлектронных диодных матриц (1965)
• Шестнадцать новых формул физики и космологии (1992)

literature

• Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 358.
• Hans Joachim Alpers, Werner Fuchs, Ronald M. Hahn, Wolfgang Jeschke : Lexicon of Science Fiction Literature. Heyne, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-453-02453-2 , p. 857.
• Vladimir Gakov: Savchenko, Vladimir. In: John Clute , Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition), version dated February 10, 2017.

Web links

• Literature by and about Vladimir Iwanowitsch Savtschenko in the catalog of the German National Library
• Vladimir Ivanovich Savchenko in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Works by and about Vladimir Ivanovich Savchenko at Open Library
• Владимир Савченко on FantLab (Russian)
• Владимир Савченко (Bibliography, Russian, accessed July 24, 2018)
• Vladimir Savchenko in Fantastic Fiction (English)